Drupal Switch?

[Seb Ruiz]

On 27/02/07, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> We've been on Mambo for longer then I've been in the project, so thats
> like more then 2 years. Its shows its age. Even given the simple task
> of serving up static pages, its slow and has heavy mysql usage.
>
> I've started working on a Drupal site. Its at:
> http://amarok.kde.org/d
>
> Advantages of Drupal:
> *It should be faster. It has pretty advanced caching stuff. The
> downside is that its caching is pretty advanced, as opposed to other
> CMS like Radiant which actually just update some static pages every 5
> minutes as needed.
> *i18n support. Drupal has it, I don't know how good it is. The
> possibility of having translations for all news items and major pages
> in an integrated system is also quite seductive.
> *Standard theming engines. xtemplate, phptemplate. Hopefully we could
> attract someone to make a theme better this way.
> *...on that note, Drupal 5's default theme is actually decent looking.
> *Drupal has been around a while, is well maintained and active. Drupal
> 5 just came out recently which is what I installed. There are dozens
> and dozens of modules available. Writing custom modules is also quite
> easy.
> *Seb, Harald and I are all previously familiar with Drupal I believe.
>
> Several WIP:
> *A few of the links go to the current Mambo site - obviously thats a
> no-no. :) The big thing is Gallery, which has to be updated to Gallery
> 2 and then it can be integrated into Drupal.
> *Outside of the Wiki link itself, I'm thinking we should move all
> those pages from the wiki (Download, Themes etc) to the drupal site.
> This will keep the theme and such consistent to casual browsers.
> Rokymotioners can all create accounts at:
> http://amarok.kde.org/d/user
> And then bug me to have their account set to Editor. In this way the
> same people (you all) editing those wiki pages can edit the drupal
> site pages.
> *There is a module to integrate with SMF (our forum). I don't think
> there's much point in having users logged into our Drupal site though
> and it would just screw up the cache system.
> *We could replace S9Y blogs with Drupal as well.
>
> Another WIP if we care:
> To import the news items from Mambo I actually just ran some SQL
> queries, its not a proper script. So images didn't transfer over
> automatically. I only transfered over all the news for the sake of
> history. Obviously the release images are a part of that history...
> but maybe something archive.org has hopefully taken care of.
>
> This is obviously going to take a bit of work, but I think it will all
> pay off in the end.


Looks fantastic so far, and i'd be around to help you with it!
go drupal, go!

Seb

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